This work reflects the result of a methodological option that was implemented in the course of economic history of Colombia for students of Economics and Finance and International Trade at the Faculty of Economics, Universidad del Rosario. In general, the idea emerged as an initiative to come from another perspective, the study of the economic history of Colombia. Students worked in a cartoon based on an economic situation that reflected some of our history from the second half of the nineteenth century, when the cartoons appearing in the national press. The work presented here do not necessarily coincide with what the cartoonist wanted to represent. Rather reflect what students, with a significant historical gap, perceive and intuit through caricature. That is, the work enabled them to come to realities plotted and interpreted in accordance with a historic and economic analysis of the fact that they perceived in the cartoon. Later this work was presented at a pedagogic innovation contest and was chosen and funded for further research. The subsequent results will be presented later when the investigation is completed cartoon and economy. A graphic look at the economic history of Colombia. This is a compilation of the best selected works made by students in the course of economic history of Colombia. Given the heterogeneity of this work were classified by historical periods. This research is divided into five parts: the first, made a literature review of the work rely on cartoons as primary source and validity of this analysis for the study of economic history. The second, containing the papers that refer to the nineteenth century, specifically the period of regeneration. The third count makes an interesting time for the Colombian economy: the twenties, the compensation of the Panama Canal. Partisan clashes that led to the Liberals to power in the thirties are shown in the fourth. In the fifth, presents cartoon alluding to the difficulties and structural changes that lived through the eighties: the financial crisis, reforms of the nineties and the final crisis of the century. At the end, there is a brief description of the cartoonists whose graphs were used to develop the analysis.